Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practice

by Frie; Roger

• ISBN13: 9780415466882
• ISBN10: 0415466881
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-03-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Beyond Postmodernismidentifies ways in which psychoanalysis has moved beyond the postmodern debate and discusses how this can be applied to contemporary practice. Roger Frie and Donna Orange bring together many of the leading authorities on psychoanalytic theory and practice to provide a broad scope of psychoanalytic viewpoints and perspectives on the growing interdisciplinary discourse between psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, social theory and philosophy of mind. Divided into two parts, Psychoanalytic Encounters with Postmodernismand Psychoanalysis Beyond Postmodernism, this book: elaborates and clarifies aspects of the postmodern turn in psychoanalysis furthers an interdisciplinary perspective on clinical theory and practice contributes to new understandings of theory and practice beyond postmodernism. Beyond Postmodernism: New Dimensions in Clinical Theory and Practiceprovides a fresh perspective on the relationship between psychoanalysis and postmodernism and raises new issues for the future. It will be of interest to practicing psychoanalysts and psychologists as well as students interested in psychoanalysis, postmodernism and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Coherence or Fragmentation? Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Search for Continuity

Psychoanalytic Encounters with Postmodernism

Postmodern Influences on Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Multiplicity and Relational Psychoanalysis: A Heideggerian Response

A Strange Convergence: Postmodern Theory, Infant Research, and Psychoanalysis

Primary Process of Deconstruction: Towards a Derridian Psychotherapy

Psychoanalysis Beyond Postmodernism

Toward the Art of the Living Dialogue: Between Constructivism and Hermeneutics in Psychoanalytic Thinking

Trauma and Human Existence: The Mutual Enrichment of Heidegger's Existential Analytic and a Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma

Reconfiguring Psychological Agency: Postmodernism, Recursivity, and the Politics of Change

Attitudes in Psychoanalytic Complexity: An Alternative to Postmodernism in Psychoanalysis

Identity, Identification, Imagination: Psychoanalysis and Modern European Thought after the Postmodern Turn

Naturalizing Relational Psychoanalytic Theory

Postscript: From Postmodern Skepticism to the Search for Psychoanalytic Understanding

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